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based on Janice L. Pilgreen’s The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program Why bother?

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based on Janice L. Pilgreen’s The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program Why bother? Students who do more free voluntary reading do better in every aspect of literacy tested: word recognition, grammar, writing, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. --Krashen, “Foreword,” The SSR Handbook, viii- ix.

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based on Janice L. Pilgreen’s The SSR Handbook: How to Organize and Manage a Sustained Silent Reading Program Why bother? Comprehension Hypothesis: we learn to read by reading Krashen, “Foreword,” x